Penholder.



UNITED STATES lPatented September 29, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

PENHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 740,181, dated September29, 1903.

Application filed March 16, 1903. Serial No. 148,107. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS ROEDER, a subject of the King of Prussia,German Emperor, residing at 123 Ritterstrasse, Berlin, Kingdom of-Prussia, German Empire, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Penholders, of which the following is an exactspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in penholders, and has for itspurpose to avoid a damaging of the holder by the difierent forms of theshafts of the pens.

In order to make my invention more clear, I refer to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of the upperpart of the penholder. Fig. 2 is a View of the elastic tube to be fixedin a bore of the upper {part of a penholder. Fig. 3 is a section of thetube and the pin situated within the same with a small pen-shank shiftedin. Fig. 4 is the same section with a broad penshank shifted in.

As will be seen from the drawings, the elastic tube (1, situated withina bore of the penholder g, has not the same diameter all over, as is thecasein the constructions hitherto used; but the diameter of the same issmaller in the middle part a of the same. The tube at is provided with aplurality of slots 17.

It will be seen from Fig. 2 that the slots b do-not reach up to theupper edge of the tube, as is usually the case, but are closed on bothends. Within the tube a pin 6 is situated, which is advantageouslyprovided with a cap f of larger diameter. The pin emay consist of wood;but it will be understood that instead of the wood pin a hollow metalpin or the like may be used. In order to fix the tube in the holder,small barbs h are provided at the 40 lower end ofthe same, which allow ashifting in of the tube, but prevent the falling out of the same. 1

If the shank of the pen is shifted in between the pin e and the tube d,the small metal strips situated between the single slots 19 are pressedoutward, as may be seen from Figs.

3 and 4:. The number of these small strips depends upon the breadth ofthe pen-shank.

By this construction any form of pen-shank can be fixed in the holderand held fast by the springs formed by the strips between the slots b ofthe tube 01, and the splitting of the wood of the holder resulting fromshifting in of pens with broader shanks, as is frequently the case inother constructions, is also pre vented.

Having thus fully described the nature of this invention, what I desireto secure by Let ters Patent of the United States is-- In a penholder,the combination with the holder, of a tube situated within the same, thediameter of which tube is smaller in the" middle part than at the endsof the same, said tube being provided with longitudinal slots closedatboth'ends, and a pin situated within this tube, substantially asdescribed and for the purpose as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 2d day of March,1903, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HANS ROEDER.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER, WOLDEMAR HAUPT.

